Morgan–Mullen conjecture on primitive completely normal elements

Let Fqn/Fq\mathbb F_{q^n}/\mathbb F_q be a finite field extension. The extension possesses the MM property if it contains an element aFqna\in\mathbb F_{q^n} that is primitive and completely normal. Morgan–Mullen conjecture. Every finite field extension possesses the MM property. This conjecture asks for primitive elements that are simultaneously normal over every intermediate field. It combines the Primitive Normal Basis Theorem with the Completely Normal Basis Theorem; the source presents it as a conjecture of Morgan and Mullen, with its resolution status not established here.

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Primary source

Theodoulos Garefalakis and Giorgos Kapetanakis, “Translates of completely normal elements and the Morgan-Mullen conjecture”, arXiv:2509.23245 (2025).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1811.00896, arXiv:1709.03141.

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